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Re: DocBook instead of debiandoc-sgml?



On 27 Feb 1998, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote:

[snip]
> > Ok, does everyone agree that we remove the `policy' statement from the DDP
> > pages that we use debiandoc-sgml? I'd suggest to change this policy aspect
> > to allow DDP authors to use the SGML system of their choice, provided that
> > the SGML system is part of the Debian main system and does not require
> > non-free components for processing the documents. 
> 
> No, I don't think this is a good idea.  If everybody just uses what
> pleases her we would get a mess with all kinds of formats, layouts,
> looks, etc.  This is in my opinion definitely not the way to go. 

You're right. I guess I shouldn't have given up so soon this time. We had
good reasons for choosing debiandoc-sgml in the past and this hasn't
changed with the availability of docbook. The DDP policy will stay as it
is.


Thanks,

Chris

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